Aging Spirituality and Pastoral Care

<p>How can you foster spiritual growth in older people?This multidisciplinary work re-examines issues of aging with dignity and spiritual meaning. Aging Spirituality and Pastoral Care: A Multi-National Perspective brings together chaplains pastors counselors and health care practitioners in all walks of gerontology from around the world to present a fully rounded picture of the spiritual needs and potentialities of this fast-growing population. It also includes a study of the spiritual awareness of nurses working in six different nursing homes as well as a model for a parish nursing practice that focuses on the aged. Aging Spirituality and Pastoral Care addresses urgent issues for older people including:</p><ul> <li> social and spiritual isolation </li> <li> the wisdom of the aging </li> <li> the need for intimacy </li> <li> sexuality among older people </li> <li> living with dementia </li> <li> the spiritual dimensions of caregiving </li> </ul>